Suzumiya Haruhi 2009 - 12 (Endless Eight) June 18
OP Sequence
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OP: 「Super Driver」 by 平野綾 (Hirano Aya)
Watch the OP! Mirror 1, Mirror 2, Show Spoiler ▼
As I said in my earlier post, I think the animation to this is fun to watch, but the song itself isn’t that great.
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Summary:
One summer day, Haruhi calls up Kyon and forces him to meet up with her and the rest of the SOS Brigade. It turns out that they’re headed to the public pool, and Haruhi really enjoys herself there. Visiting the pool is just one of the things on her summer activity list for the group though, and she’s got plenty more written down that she wants to do in the two weeks left in summer. Mikuru even adds to the list by suggesting goldfish scooping. And so, the group embarks on completing each of the activities, and this begins with buying yukata for the girls as a precursor to going to a festival, scooping goldfish, and playing with fireworks. The day after that is bug catching, and Haruhi decides that they should see who can catch the most cicadas. Haruhi, of course, ends up being the winner.
Haruhi then sets them up to do part-time work for a supermarket dressed in frog costumes, and Kyon is dismayed to find out afterward that their pay is one of the frog costumes that Haruhi wanted. The group also does some stargazing, and Haruhi is disappointed that she can’t see any Martians, so she looks for UFOs instead. As the days go by, the group continues to embark on different activities based on Haruhi’s interests, including batting practice, a fishing competition, and karaoke. Toward the end of the two weeks, they finish all the activities on the list, and though Haruhi’s still somewhat unsatisfied, she lets it go. Kyon ends up spending his last day of summer at home doing homework, and he goes to bed five minutes before midnight.
For someone who wasn’t very familiar with this story, I originally thought that this was a fairly enjoyable episode with some humor (the Kakizaki scene made me laugh), fanservice, and slice-of-life summer activities stuff that you can find in a lot of other series, but I didn’t think all that much interesting happened plot-wise. That seemed a little odd to me given how most of the past Haruhi stories have had some sort of twist, and it got me curious enough to find out what’s really behind this. And now that I know, what the Kyoto Animation team did with this episode makes much more sense, as does the title Endless Eight. It makes me very curious how they’re going to show the events of next week’s episode, though part of me wishes now that I hadn’t spoiled myself because I probably would have had a much bigger enlightening moment.
megalith at 8:26 pm on June 18th, 2009
Wow.. Time sure does fly by quickly. I didn’t expect this. Need subs.
Amatsu at 8:30 pm on June 18th, 2009
haruhi!!!!!!!!
Chimasternmay at 8:31 pm on June 18th, 2009
owahhaaaa a new episode. yippee uuu…. will be fun to watch
n3rf at 8:32 pm on June 18th, 2009
Does Haruhi Suzumiya come out every month?
ItAintEazy at 8:40 pm on June 18th, 2009
Endless Eights Haruhi
vs:
Lucky Star Haruhi
I guess she did blow it up and rebuilt everything in order to give herself a bigger cup size.
Or got a boob job, whichever works for you.
magnumslinger at 8:42 pm on June 18th, 2009
I expect this to be subbed within a day. Some Toradora episodes were like that. Moreso Haruhi.
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zeropi at 8:42 pm on June 18th, 2009
man, i sure wish tey had subs for the 2 episode and so forth…………..
Tokkan at 8:46 pm on June 18th, 2009
Uh, Omni, this is the 12th episode of the run.
starss at 9:00 pm on June 18th, 2009
DUDE. *in Heaven*
ItAintEazy at 9:04 pm on June 18th, 2009
@magnumslinger
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magnumslinger at 9:12 pm on June 18th, 2009
@ItAintEazy: Thanks.
BTW, has anyone noticed that Haruhi’s *ahem*–you know–has gotten bigger than from the episodes made two years ago?
Phocus at 9:15 pm on June 18th, 2009
A TRUE fan would watch this 15 498 times, and then watch the next week episode.
Then again, that’d be…
15,498 x 25 minute episode / 60 minutes per hour / 24 hours per day …
~269 DAYS worth of material
To think about it in another way, it’d be like watching a fetal embryo develop until it’s born. Constantly.
magnumslinger at 9:17 pm on June 18th, 2009
@Phocus: LMAO
Tokkan at 9:18 pm on June 18th, 2009
… And your opening video is also between 1 and 2 seconds out of synce. Not that it matters.
JR at 9:24 pm on June 18th, 2009
Yeah, unless there’s an Endless Eight 2 next week then it’s certainly divergent from the novel.
Phocus has it right. There was very little “endless” about this one.
Ariesboy at 9:49 pm on June 18th, 2009
Animation art seems better on this episode.
Narutodesu at 10:23 pm on June 18th, 2009
Return of Bearfrogwoman?
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Suzumiya%20Haruhi/Suzumiya%20Haruhi%202009%20-%2012%20-%20Large%2025.jpg
ajt at 10:28 pm on June 18th, 2009
@magnumslinger and itainteasy
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ItAintEazy at 10:36 pm on June 18th, 2009
@Narutodesu:
Almost missed what’s on Haruhi’s shirt.
Heh.
@ajt
Well, the episode didn’t end conclusively enough, so it will probably definitely happen.
Kim at 10:54 pm on June 18th, 2009
I had forgotten what the twist was until I read this post. Nothing you said gave it away of course it just sparked my memory so to speak.